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Paperback. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 halftones, 2 maps, 5 tables, 18 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AVGH; JFC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226817002
ISBN
9780226817002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.92

Paperback. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929804
ISBN
9780813929804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.74

Paperback. Looks behind the generalities of debates about globalization to explore the personal impact of global forces on the Peruvian poor. This ethnography offers insight into how the people have coped with extreme poverty and rapid population growth - and their creation of lives and customs in the process. Num Pages: 280 pages, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292713000
ISBN
9780292713000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare culminating in a tragedy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFW; 3JJPK; VXQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Tor Books United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780765334985
ISBN
9780765334985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.00

Paperback. When Roger Bechan was six, his mother packed his suitcase and took him to the Oklahoma Society for the Friendless. He never saw her again. This book offers an unsentimental look at Bechan's life in the child welfare system of Depression-era Oklahoma. Num Pages: 246 pages, 19 b&w photos, bib, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSH; BGA; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875654034
ISBN
9780875654034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.67

Paperback. Leaving Atlantis is a suite of poems that explores the unstable territory between public and private, addressed to the great Barbadian novelist and thinker George Lamming. Num Pages: 64 pages, [DELETED]. BIC Classification: 1KJWWB; DCF. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 207 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 78.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845233143
ISBN
9781845233143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.98

Paperback. Explores the changing forms of colonial domination and peasant politics in the Andean highlands from the 1740s (the starting point of large political and economic transformations) through the early 1780s, when a massive insurrection of the highland communities shook the foundations of Spanish rule. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822331469
ISBN
9780822331469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Series: Insiders' Guide Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBF; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 18.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Insiders' Guide United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762760398
ISBN
9780762760398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.41

Hardcover. Editor(s): Celone, Barton V. Num Pages: 151 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 266 x 185 x 16. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
151
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604561982
ISBN
9781604561982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.20
€ 108.79

Paperback. How should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? Communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. This work looks at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it. Series: Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion. Num Pages: 318 pages, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226869070
ISBN
9780226869070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.33

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594036811
ISBN
9781594036811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.75

Hardcover. Discusses the unprecedented challenges that the movement of peoples across national borders poses, for the people involved as well as for the places to which they travel and their countries of origin. Editor(s): Benhabib, Seyla; Resnik, Judith. Num Pages: 520 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPA; JPVH1; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780814775998
ISBN
9780814775998
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.81

Hardback. Series: American Thought and Culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742535411
ISBN
9780742535411
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.48

Hardcover. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590331965
ISBN
9781590331965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.18
€ 60.83

Hardback. The first and only comprehensive narrative account of the secret Cuban missile crisis ExComm meetings, by the first historian to hear the tapes of every secretly recorded discussion. Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 35. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748469
ISBN
9780804748469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 42.55

Hardback. The Writing in the Stars explores Paz's life and ideas by establishing a dialogue between the structure and recurring images of his major poems and the ideas of Carl Jung. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802090843
ISBN
9780802090843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Hardcover. Examines the largely unsung leadership of U.S. Army battalion commanders in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations of World War II and concludes that they were hugely instrumental in overcoming their German Adversaries to emerge victorious, first in North Africa (Operation TORCH) and then in Sicily (Operation HUSKY). Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Edition
HAR/MAP
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700618996
ISBN
9780700618996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.87

Hardcover. Focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 448 pages, 120 halftones, 14 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AMVD; JFSJ1; JKSB1; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 767.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226311289
ISBN
9780226311289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 39.78

Paperback. In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. Through the lens of this unsolved murder, this work offers a snapshot of social and sexual relations between Chinese and non-Chinese populations in turn-of-the-century New York City. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 halftones. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Second Printing
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130484
ISBN
9780691130484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.27

hardcover. This study surveys the problem of US government relations with pro-American authoritarian rulers. Working over a three-year period, a group of specialists and government officials draw conclusions that offer guidelines to help understand the problem and to make policy for the future. Editor(s): Pipes, Daniel; Garfinkle, Adam M. Num Pages: 567 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 873.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
567
Condition
New
Edition
1991st Edition
SKU
V9780333543757
ISBN
9780333543757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 198.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 14 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813062198
ISBN
9780813062198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.18

Paperback. An authoritative and detailed survey of the languages of the North American Indians. Series Editor(s): Anderson, S. R.; Bresnan, J.; Comrie, B.; Dressler, W.; Ewen, C.; Lass, R. Series: Cambridge Language Surveys. Num Pages: 796 pages, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2JN; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
796
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521298759
ISBN
9780521298759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 111.23

Paperback. Contains original essays on the Ohio and Erie Canal. This title showcases the research and writing of the best and knowledgeable canal historians, archaeologists, and enthusiasts. It takes a broad approach to the canal and what it has meant to Ohio from its original function in the state's growth its function in revitalizing our region. Illustrator(s): Ayers, Chuck. Editor(s): Metzger, Lynn; Bobel, Peg. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; HBT; WGGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 32. Weight in Grams: 984.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Kent State University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606350133
ISBN
9781606350133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 44.43

Paperback. Exploring classic examples of film noir such as 'The Asphalt Jungle', 'Double Indemnity' and 'Kiss Me Deadly', alongside many lesser-known works, Dimendberg interweaves film history and urban history while analysing works by Raymond Chandler, Edward Hopper and Siegfried Kracauer. Num Pages: 352 pages, 61 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 233 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013469
ISBN
9780674013469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.90

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